Best Buy Super Bowl ad puts phone, app makers in one place

Best Buy as part of a promo has started the run of tech-focused Super Bowl ads with a segment pitching its mobile stores. The ad unites both the inventors of phone technology, such as Philippe Kahn (the camera phone) and Ray Kurzweil (text to voice synthesis) with those making newer hardware and software. Key inventors behind Instagram, Shazam, Square, Words With Friends, and others find their ...

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A new version of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code — the regulations all companies selling phone and Internet services in Australia agree to abide by — was announced today. How will it make your costs easier to understand and help eliminate bill shock? (Good news: the word ‘cap’ will be banned!) Picture by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images The code ...

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Khao Bin prison in Ratchaburi has beefed up security in preparation to receive 200 notorious drug inmates being transferred from other jails.

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“Fortress” Khao Bin

Khao Bin prison in Ratchaburi, said to have the best security protection system of all prisons in the country, is being readied to receive 200 notorious drug inmates being transferred from other jails.